It’s a fine line between jaunty and annoying. When Lisette Sand-Freedman, 42, took a four-day family trip to the Dominican Republic in February, she chose her out-of-office email message carefully. “In case of emergency, please call 911” was what rolled into the inboxes of chief marketing officers, publicists and celebrities …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s transition organization is arguing that a government agency improperly turned over a cache of emails to special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into contacts between Trump associates and Russia. The complaint by the transition team is the latest attempt to undermine …
Labor Day Weekend is nearly here, summer’s last hurrah! A final barbecue, last weekend at the pool and, most glamorous of all, deciding what to write in your out-of-office reply. But how best to approach the drafting of this automated message? One of my favorite stories on the topic is The …
Though its political implications are yet unclear, the publication of an email chain in which Donald Trump Jr. arranged a June 2016 meeting with a lawyer peddling the Russian government’s help for his father’s presidential campaign ought to inspire some pretty obvious tech advice: Step away from the inbox, stupid! That’s not …
Google is making a change to its advertising practices that will affect millions of Gmail users around the globe. Starting later this year, the company will stop reading your emails to refine its ads. If you’re just learning that Gmail scans your messages, this is an issue that dates back for years. Google’s …
If you use Google’s Gmail app, you may have seen something new pop up on your screen this week: suggested responses for your emails. The move illustrates one way that Google is using its increased focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning. If you’re wondering why and how Google can make these …
Emailing after hours can damage our health and make us less productive, experts say. Is France’s ‘right to disconnect’ the best way to fight overwork? Few of us are likely to be bored enough to tot up just how long we spend sifting through our emails. Fabien Mathy was far …
NEW YORK (AP) — Details from the Department of Justice indictment of Russian hackers on Wednesday show that many people are still not taking routine precautions to safeguard their email accounts — and hackers are exploiting that. The Russian hackers didn’t have to work very hard to break into people’s …
Get to the point. In the military, a poorly formatted email may be the difference between mission accomplished and mission failure. During my active duty service, I learned how to structure emails to maximize a mission’s chances for success. Since returning from duty, I have applied these lessons to emails …
The exposure of the Clinton campaign’s internal emails shows that a ubiquitous, and vulnerable, communication tool is ready for the scrap heap. Every four years, pundits race to anoint this or that newfangled tech trend as the next disruptive force to forever alter the mechanics of American democracy. The 2016 …
“I haven’t worried about an email being hacked since I’ve never sent one. I’m, like, ahead of my time.” ~SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, Republican of South Carolina, on the queasiness in Washington as yet another victim, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, fell prey to seeing his personal musings distributed …
The resignation of a much-lauded police official in Los Angeles County is evidence of how standards for the private lives of public servants are rising. That’s especially true for police departments now. GLENDALE, CALIF. — Tom Angel of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s office had two different opinions of what …